resume/Daniel Chen.typ

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= Technical Skills

#indent[
    *Languages:* Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, C, C++, Rust, Dart, Java, SQL, XML, XSL, Bash \
    *Tools:* OpenCV, Flask, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, Flutter, Linux
]

= Experience

#indent[
#work_entry(
  "Software Developer, Software Quality Analyst",
  "i4i Infrastructure for Information",
  location: "Toronto",
  start_date: "May 2023", end_date: "Sep 2023",
  tasks: (
    [Developed a program to automate converting hundreds of client data values from Excel to Word metadata],
    [Designed Python, XML, and XSL code to extract and process data to interface with existing software products],
    [Performed 1000+ functional, security, and stress tests to ensure quality for clients like Pfizer and Astellas],
    [Communicated with developers and clients to perform root cause analysis on hundreds of major issues],
    [Coordinated with management and team members to delegate work, present results, and meet deadlines]
  )
)

#work_entry(
  "Electrical/Communications Subsystem Lead",
  "UW Orbital Engineering Design Team, Waterloo",
  start_date: "Sep 2022", end_date: "present",
  location: "Waterloo",
  tasks: (
    [Implemented the Diffie-Hellman key exchange in C using a 3072-bit prime number and 256-bit keys],
    [Managed a team of 10 to develop electrical and power, battery management, ADCS, and computer systems],
    [Led the design of the custom transceiver by reviewing schematics and optimizing the layout per RF guidelines],
    [Validated PCBs with power and RF testing, resulting in a recorded 34 dB gain measured by VNA S-parameters],
    )
  )
]

= Projects
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#project("Produce Palate", "https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown", "Python, OpenCV, Scikit-learn, Flask")
- Created an image preprocessing algorithm to reduce noise, perform contour detection, and enhance colours
- Trained an AI image classifier model with KNN, Random Forest, and SVM algorithms tuned using grid search
- Achieved 96% accuracy recognizing 5 distinct classes of fruits and vegetables in a web game built with Flask

#project("Snake Wave", "https://github.com/potatoeggy/primoprod", "Python, OpenCV, Pygame, Flask, PostgreSQL, bcrypt")
- Designed a snake game controlled by hand gestures using OpenCV and Google’s MediaPipe ML model
- Implemented a Flask API with PostgreSQL to handle user authentication with bcrypt and track a leaderboard

// #project("Kobink — Kobo Sync Server", "https://github.com/potatoeggy/kobink", "Rust, Axum, Postgres")
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// - ??? something here (synchronisation and DB, HTTP headers)

#project("The Everyday Watch Collector App", "https://github.com/vincentjguo/recipeready-server", "Kotlin, XML, React, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, JavaScript")
- Created a user-friendly interface to display 100+ glossary entries and 40+ videos using Kotlin and XML
- Utilized Retrofit and Gson to retrieve API data in JSON with seamless fallback to local data upon Internet loss
- Automated unit and instrumented tests using Espresso to ensure code quality and minimize regressions
- Developed a contributions page using React to send web inputs through a POST request to the REST API
- Deployed a REST API using NodeJS, Express, and MongoDB to perform CRUD operations on a cloud database

#project("Catholic Companion (Saints App)", "https://github.com/potatoeggy/boxboxrevolution", "React Native, TypeScript, Python, BeautifulSoup")
- Developed an app to display a saint of the day and a list of Catholic prayers in React Native and TypeScript
- Devised a web scraping algorithm to extract data with BeautifulSoup and clean data with LanguageTool
- Optimized performance with multithreading pools, resulting in a 5x increase in speed to retrieve 250 listings
]

#project("RecipeReady", "https://github.com/vincentjguo/recipeready-server", "Python, Selenium, Flutter, Dart")
- Produced a recipe app to help users plan daily meals with a weekly schedule and a generated grocery list
- Gathered 500+ recipes by scraping with Selenium, and created a REST API to get data from a cloud database

= Honours

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    [
      - 1st Place CubeSat Design Challenge, Canadian Satellite Design Challenge
      - The Governor General's Academic Medal (Bronze Medal), Governor General of Canada
    ],
    align(right)[
      *2023*,
      *2022*
    ]
  )
]

= Education

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#work_entry(
  "University of Waterloo",
  "B.A.Sc. ing Computer Engineering",
  start_date: "Sep 2022", end_date: "Apr 2027 (expected)",
  location: "Waterloo, ON",
  tasks: (
    [Courses: Object-oriented programming, data structures & algorithms, digital computers & circuits],
  )
)
]